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12th January 2018
04:16pm GMT
Black Mirror fans will probably have already binged their way through the recently released fourth season by now, leaving them positively jonsing for some more dark visions of society's future — thankfully, a new Netflix offering will soon arrive to take the edge off.
Altered Carbon takes place hundreds of years in the future, where it is then possible to digitise the human mind and download it into different bodies... meaning immortality is now a reality for those with enough money to afford it. When a former soldier (Joel Kinnaman/Will Yun Lee) is returned to life after being dead for 200 years, he is tasked by the richest man in the world (James Purefoy) to track down a killer...
Based on a hardboiled cyberpunk novel of the same name, the series seems to channel dystopian cinematic classics like Blade Runner and The Matrix to show us a future that's bleak and flashy at the same time.
Will you be checking out Altered Carbon when it hits Netflix on February 2? Let us know in the comments.
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